HIGH WALLS. Tall gate opening to a tree-lined driveway. Multi-slot carport. Sprawling well-manicured gardens. Mansion in the middle of a man-made lake. Rows of villas. Swimming pool. Salon and spa. KTV bar and game rooms. Entertainment center. Helipad. Underground tunnel. Hidden firing range equipped with electronic controls for pistol and rifle targets.
How did it come to this?
In the China of Chairman
Mao, these POGO bosses would have been instantly branded “unrepentant
bourgeois,” immediately denounced as “capitalist roaders,” and promptly damned
and dispatched accordingly for their betrayal of the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution.
Alas, Mao’s long dead. Interred
in the deepest recesses of his people’s collective memory, his thoughts and
quotes hardly remembered.
To make matters worse – in
the Maoist context – more emperor than communist party chair is Xi Jinping – indeed,
the embodiment of the scourge that the Great Helmsman in his Circular of May 16, 1966: warned
his people against: “Those representatives of
the bourgeoisie who have sneaked into the Party, the government, the army and
various spheres of culture are a bunch of counter-revolutionary revisionists.
Once conditions are ripe, they will seize political power and turn the dictatorship
of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.”
With the sacred socialist creed abandoned, and compulsive capitalist greed enshrined, how else explain these Chinese behaving badly, be they in these POGOs or in the West Philippine Sea?
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